Tuesday, June 13, 2017

First public hostile engagement of the 2017 GOP Primary in the 43rd Council District involves Candidates --- Liam McCabe and John Quaglione --- along with incumbent Republican State Senator Martin Golden

GOP candidate Liam McCabe’s
call for GOP State Senator Marty Golden to apologize for his “FAT BOY”
remark about Democrat Justin Brannan included >>> a call-out aimed at McCabe’s “fellow”
GOP candidate John Quaglione, at whose campaign event Golden’s remark was made, and who also works for Golden

Here’s the real “money shot”: “…. John Quaglione should
have been the person to say what I just did but decided to be silent. Look, if
you can't speak up when your voice is needed then we have to wonder how you
will stand up to Bill de Blasio and the City Council Speaker…..”

-- In Liam McCabe's Statement of 6/12/17 on Facebook

At about 7:00 PM
last evening,Liam McCabe posted the
following statement on his Facebook page at“Liam for City
Council”:

Spending the last few days
campaigning in the district many people want to know how I feel about the off
color remark Marty Golden made toward Justin Brannan. To be honest I thought I would
have heard more from ANY of my opponents both Democrats and Republicans but
there has been silence. I'm shocked no one has said what needed to be said so
let me say it.

Marty Golden is a well respected
and effective public servant that has worked hard for this community but he owes Justin Brannan for City Council a simple
apology.

John Quaglione should
have been the person to say what I just did but decided to be silent. Look, if
you can't speak up when your voice is needed then we have to wonder how you
will stand up to Bill de Blasio and the City Council Speaker.

Justin Brannan, could have let the comment
speak for itself but instead was quick to call out Senator Golden and score
cheep political points. That to me is the pot calling the kettle black.
Especially since Mr. Brannan has thrown around locker room talk himself and has
have never apologized for his own insensitivity.

I myself am far from perfect, I
have said things I regret and used language I shouldn't have but when I make a
mistake I will own up to it and if I need to address an off color remark, I
will do it.

That's who I am.”

New plateau reached in 2017 as
one candidate for City Council raises an issue with a GOP incumbent State
Senator, and then uses it to go after one
of his own Republican intra-party opponents for that council nomination

Like Ceasar, Liam McCabe has decided that it was his time to cross the Rubicon. And like the Rome of pre-Christian times, Marty Golden's cabal in Bay Ridge is the nexus of Republican governance in all of Brooklyn. Make no mistake, Liam's statement means that he intends to be the conquering hero vis a vis the GOP City Council Primary.**

Oddly, Liam's message appeared on John Q's Facebook space

Whether it was a calculated raid by
Liam, or a quirk of Facebook algorithms, there is no way that
Liam's statement should have been allowed to appear in any of Q's
social media spaces.

Unless, of course, JQ saw this
as an opportunity to spring a trap on his rambunctious adversary;
with a real "Ides of March-Forum Welcome" for anybody with so much
ambition.

I guess we'll have to see how that
all plays out in due course.

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* BTW, just kidding about the “Doctors and Scientists…” part.....

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**Left inchoate is whether Liam will accept the golden laurel crown as Emperor of the Brooklyn GOP; and, more important, are there enough [or any] Republican leaders ready to offer that crown to Liam McCabe, either in 2017 or the future.

Obrien could easily take down Q and Marty like he's done with so many Rep priamries, but Liam keeps listening to his girlfriend and his Manhattan friends instead.

Word is Obrien walks by Aug 1, and if that's true, Liam has screwed himself bigtime.

How do you explain that to donors? "I hired the consultant who defeated Bob DeCarlo and 20 other Repubs, but I let him go because I know consulting too. I mean, I worked for a few officeholders and handled petitions and lit drops. How tough can mailings be? Besides, my girlfriend knows Microsoft Pubnlisher."

RESPONSE: THE "WHY CAN'T I GET EVEN A FEW HOURS OF UNINTERRUPTED SLEEP ???" EDITION

TO ALMOST ALL OF THE COMMENTERS ABOVE

OUR LITTLE BLOG HERE ISN'T INTENDED TO BE >>> ONLY A PLACE TO PLAY OUT THE PSYCHO-DRAMAS GOING ON INSIDE THE MC CABE CAMPAIGN.....

I did my report on what I thought was a significant event in the 2017 campaign inside the Brooklyn GOP >>> in, around and connected to the particular goings-on in the 43rd Council District.

Then "In the weeh small hours of the morning, when all the world is fast...", I got an "off the record" or "deep background" brick through my window that clunked me on my head, while I was sleeping the sleep of the just and the beautiful. By the time I had rubbed that wonderful sleep from my eyes, I had to stop and wonder if it all had been a horrible nightmare and not a brick through the window.

Then I thought to myself, let me get a look at the blog and see if there are any comments to my last post that might make things clearer --- more in line with the light of day hat was streaming through my now-broken window.

I went to my fortress of solitude and fired up my time and lack of motion machine..... OMG, that brick to my head wasn't a dream after all..... >>> BUT <<< Thanks to gudt !!! It wasn't a nightmare at all; at least it wasn't >>> MY <<< nightmare. However, it does look like it might very be Liam's..... BTW, the brick through my window was definitely aimed at Liam Mc Cabe.

What more can you expect from anything that's somewhere between "off the record", "deep cover" and somebody else's nightmare ???

Liam went after Marty because when he wins the primary he did it with Marty working against him and therefore does not need Golden. McCabe showed great independence that is respected in local circles. He has said to his friends/supporters over the past weeks that he is charting his own path, and not part of the old guard- and that includes O'Brien.. good moves by McCabe..he will win in a landslide

Look what is happening out there- more district leaders & district leader candidates are carrying petitions than anyone else, and even outright taking folks who committed to Q...just ask Clorinda A 9Q supporter) who had a heated discussion with Liam last week about taking some of her people who committed to carry for her and Q..

The cracks in Martyland are growing real fast at Q's expense and to the benefit of Councilman McCabe.

Gailykins, it looks like you stepped into the middle of this mess and you were clueless what was happening. Deny it if you will, but deny it at your own peril.McCabe going in a straight line attack against Golden and Ghorra doesn't look like a smart move if he really wants to be the GOP City Council nominee, unless he knows that Marty and Marty's 'henchman' Ghorra are already getting set to throw "Q" under the bus. Then McCabe's unveiled threat at an open break with Marty is just another prod.Riddle me this Batgail, where are Kassar and Mike Long in all this? Would Liam take on Marty without permission from above?

To 1:00 Pm, it doesn't matter to Q, Golden, and Ghorra how many are "bad mouthing" them and supporting Liam because they all live and Manhattan and are paid by Liam's campaign. Even his own staff can't vote for Liam in the Primary.

I'm not in the middle of anybody's campaign mess, but you are correct that I was briefly out of the loop on some of the most recent McCabe intra-campaign problems, whose initials are GOB, CS, R(B)M and, of course, W(L)McC. [I haven't double-checked my notes, but I do recall hearing about earlier versions of stuff suggesting that the present mess might eventuate.]

As for your opinions about straight line attacks on Marty Golden and/or permissions for such attacks from Kassar and/or Long; those are YOUR opinions, and whether I might agree or disagree is not something that I feel compelled to discuss right now.

Question: After a long OTR conversation is there anything left to talk about ?

Answer: Of course there is, I can talk about everything else: however, that everything else can be modified or even redefined based on the OTR information.

We can look forward to a revamped Liam McCabe --- now that he has crossed his personal Rubicon vis a vis Golden and Quaglione. Almost needless to say, any remaining deferential tone toward a certain state senator would be more a tip-o-the-hat toward many of the Golden supporters that also currently are backing Liam, than it would be anything on Marty's own account.

Furthermore, the possibility of some counter-move(s) by Golden and/or Quaglione, and/or others on their behalves, was a factor that had been evaluated as a cost of Liam's doing his political business in a fresher, aggressively honest way. However, that evaluation was not the major factor in the candidates final decision to proceed the way that he did.

Let's talk again about this stuff some more in a more open and less restrained manner; but only when and if ykw says that I can.

FIRST, THE NEAR --- REALLY, "WTF!" --- DO YOU KISS YOUR MOTHER WITH THAT SAME MOUTH ???

NEXT THE "DEAR" --- ALBANESE ENDORSES KEVIN PETER CARROLL IN THE DEMOCRAT PRIMARY

It is very interesting that just a couple of days ago, John Quaglione was quoting Democrat Sal Albanese; then, things blew up about Marty Golden's calling Democrat Justin Brannan "Fat Boy"; and now Sal Albanese has endorsed Democrat Kevin Peter Carroll to be the Democrat nominee for City Council over Justin Brannan and several other Democrats.

Here's something for you all to think about, maybe even dwell upon --- Sal, Marty and KPC have tended to get along very well over the years; and Republican Marty G has long been criticized for his various "side deals" with key Democrat operators.

Any CHANGES in the McCabe Campaign are more likely to mean fewer survivors in Liam's inner circle; and those "survivors" almost exclusively are people that have been "with Liam since long before the campaign." The problem with long time friends' and old partners' participating in a political campaign is that "the prior relationship" is baked into any and all campaign advice.

Instead of focusing on Liam's "listening" to any so-called "new blood" at the top of the campaign --- try focusing on a potential hemorrhage of direction and talent that would accompany the loss of somebody whose title is "general consultant" with duties including "oversight" over everything, everybody and almost every potential category of campaign activity.

Whether entering a "contract" that spelled out that and so much more was wise or not is not the issue at the moment, the issue at the moment is the significance of breaking such a contract at this stage of the campaign.....

For sure any change at the top will mean a change of direction, but knowing what direction that might be is impossible to predict or even readily observe, because Liam's campaign will even more take on characteristics solely determined by the whims of a lonely little boy named "William".....

BTW, this comment did have some input from ykw, sometimes described as a "general consultant".....

Gale: Stop posting about national politics. Nobody comes here to read about Trump and Jeff Sessions. We come here to talk about Liam and his new posters. We come here to talk about John Q's terrible palm card where he forgot to capitalize City Hall. We come here to talk about Bob Capano, the only cat in this race who will be on the ballot in November no matter what !!!!

I looked it up and unfortunately the only Judge John O'Hara, that I found was John Francis O'Hara of Graniteville, Vermont; but he passed away last November. As far as I can tell, that Judge O'Hara has no current campaign for Civil Court or any other court in the works.

THIS IS WORSE THAN WATCHING PAINT DRY --- OR ANNOUNCING THAT SOMETHING THAT WAS PAINTED ON SUNDAY IS NOW DRY.....

The Quaglione campaign's one day drive for $500 in campaign funds was a success; they say that they even >>> EXCEEDED <<< their goal. All I can say is, "Amazing, simply A M A Z I N G ! ! !"

Now, if they did that everyday for ten days it would be $5000.....

Or, every day for a month it would be $15,000.....

Eventually, it would be a decent amount of FUND RAISING..... If "Q" did it everyday for a Very long time.....

Thanking everybody by social media seems a little tacky, though. How many people could it be ??? Pick up a phone or send a thank you note. Q's drive for $500 was very "Old School" --- so Q should have thanked the folks in an old school way.....

They say that breaking up is hard to do... Next. the early recriminations phase... After that self-loathing and depression... After that primary day, and a second recriminations phase with more self-loathing and depression. By Thanksgiving Liam will feel like a turkey and then the healing will begin.

Hey, you crazy Gailmeister, one of the comments above said "Judge O'Hara," in your response why did you assume it was all about your good friend Democrat John Kennedy O'Hara? Not every O'Hara is JKO, you know. Didn't your old friend Denis McMahon have a girl friend named O'Hara, that wasn't JKO, was it? See what I mean...

Teddy Whigs told me Liam's girlfriend has Jerry O tied up in the cellar and she is running the campaign now. Liam thinks Jerry O is on vacation in Boca. Do you think when John Quaglione is our next council man anyone will remember Liam's name? Capano and McCabe are toast. That leaves Johnny and it looks like Golden is going "all in" this time around I received a postcard that had Golden and Quaglione on it.

RESPONSE: THE "HEH, HEH, HEH ! ! ! SOME OF THIS STUFF IS HUMOROUS" EDITION

TO MANY OF THE COMMENTERS; BUT ESPECIALLY THE FOLLOWING PART OF THE COMMENT BY "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 8:33 AM": ".... ALSO, GAIL -- NO PROOF THAT THERE HAS BEEN A FALLING OUT BETWEN [SIC] OBRIEN [SIC] & MC CABE-- STOP SPREADING LIES"

VERY SORRY WHOEVER YOU ARE, I HAVE TO COMPLETELY DISAGREE --- I HAVE PLENTY OF PROOF THAT THERE WAS A VERY SIGNIFICANT "FALLING OUT" BETWEEN GERRY O'BRIEN AND LIAM MC CABE --- I ALSO HAVE PROOF THAT THEY HAVE TAKEN A FEW BABY STEPS TOWARD PATCHING IT UP --- ANYBODY WHO MIGHT CARE SHOULD READ ON

Regular readers of this blog should have figured out by now, if they had an interest in it at all, that I almost certainly have spoken to >>> BOTH <<< Gerry O'Brien and Liam McCabe about their ongoing >>> BUSINESS DEAL AND THE RECENT EMERGING BREAKDOWN OF THAT DEAL.....

If anybody were to confront me with that conclusory proposition, I would neither confirm nor deny it; but, if pressed, I'd be >>> UNABLE to advance any denial whatsoever.....

The campaign of Liam McCabe for the City Council clearly has pivoted away from an O'Brien styled campaign (here's just one example: how many times has Liam rolled out new posters at this very early stage of the campaign ??? And guess who's working on yet another poster design ??? And does anybody think that stuff is indicative of a smooth interaction between O'Brien and McCabe ???).

Mail and mailers is GOB's metier, so how do YOU think repeated, dare I posit "constant," corrections, additions and changes to an O'Brian-crafted mailer that was supposed to be >>> at the printer long ago <<< has gone down with Gerry ??? Well, if Liam were responsible for and/or advanced those corrections, additions and changes, don't YOU think that GOB would flip out, or at least react in a somewhat churlish manner.

Until very recently, there had been NO EXCHANGE OF PHONE CALLS between Liam and O'Brien for several days..... One or both of them even accused the other of breaking their deal in just the last couple of days.....

But, Sports Fans, don't lose heart. These two stalwarts have very recently agreed to work together on something related to the McCabe Campaign for City Council --- let's see how that attempt works out; I sure that Gerry and Liam feel the same way about it.

Gail, if what you say is true and you spoke to Obrien and by your details it does seem true, then Liam is foolish for continuing to work with him as if Obrien is talking to you about Liam issues/strategy, who else is he talking to?

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